Mustang National Stars Team To Beat

Five players from Crown Sunglasses, the unbeaten regular season champion, make the Seminole Pony Mustang National All-Stars one of the tournament favorites.

The Mustang District tournament, for 9-10-year olds, begins today at the West Seminole Pony Complex in Forest City.

The Seminole Nationals play the West Seminole 'B' All-Stars at 5:30 p.m. The Seminole Americans take on the West Seminole 'A' team at 8 p.m.

The winner of this double elimination tournanent will advance to the Tampa Town & Country Complex for the Pony State Championships.

Dana Coates, Michael White, Bryan Lowe, Shawn O'Quin and Stacey Merrell are the five players from Crown's who make the Seminole Nationals a powerful unit. Crown's went through its regular season completing a perfect 20-0 record.

Four players from Pants USA, which finished the regular season 16-4, add to the strength of the Seminole Nationals. Shawn Shapiro, Greg Hirsch, Eric King and Ben Scott represent Pants USA.

Representing Bill's Boys are Ronnie King and Dusty Curry. Paul Renwick and Jeff Miller were picked by Energy Saving Systems.

Seminole National manager Steve Shapiro says Coates will get the pitching assignment for the first game. Gochee will do the catching. The rest of the infield has Shapiro at first,Hirsch at second, Morgan at shortstop and White at third. The outfield consists of Merrell, Renwick and Curry.

The West Seminole 'A' team, co-mananged by Neil Goldstein and Ben Johnson, will start Sean Goldstein against the Seminole Americans.

The rest of West Seminole A's starting lineup has Nathan Vike at shortstop, Tommy Wilson at catcher, Mike McGurk at first, John Andersen at second, Moises Navaro at third, Mitchell Schardt, Todd Pollack and Jeff Butler in the outfield.

Reserves for West Seminole A are David Coalter, Scott Koch, Lee Johnson, Jason Opal, Matt wood and John Peetz.

The Bronco (11-12) Division All-Star District tournament will begin at 6 p.m. Friday at the Seminole Pony Baseball Five Points Complex.

The Seminole American Broncos will meet Gainesville in a best-of-three series. The winner advances to the Bronco State Tournament to be held at the West Seminole Complex.

In the Pony (13-14) Division, Seminole and West Seminole will meet in a best-of-three tournament starting Friday at the Five Points.